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The Jackson Herald
■ Holder & Williamson
|[ NGE NOTES
g[ ItemJ Of Interet Among Our
■ Neighbors And Friends
■ I j B. Hill Dies At Maysville
v - Commerce News)
V Hugh Hill, in Mays-
JM afternoon, January
v -orvices were conduct-
Baptist Church Sunday
Hill is survived by the fol-
H'.' *v : 0. R. Reynolds of
B*'.' i Mrs. R. W. White and
\. Arnold of Maysville,
■ a nJ Hugh Hill of Maysville,
W. House, of Oakwood, and
, Reynolds, of Gaines-
Kj T , v ., brothers, W. M. Rey
■ ■ Maysville, and W. E. Rey-
H Atlanta. There are twenty
■ children and four great
H children.
J Bolton-Kelly
■ l , Rev . M. Clyde Smith an
■ that on Sunday night, Jan
■ i.t. he united in ~holy matri-
K Rufus O’Kelly, of Maysville,
Vy Janie Bolton, of near Com
.he ceremony being perform
parsonage and the young
desiring that it not be announc
■ . noW . Mrs. Kelly has been
Hoyed at the local overall plant.
f♦* * *
■ Mary Braselton Honored
pjl ,From Gainesville Eagle)
Mary Braselton, of Brasel
er of Mrs. H. Bryce Ward
■Kitis city, and popular and fre
membership of Zeta Phi Eta,
honorary oratory organiza
at the noon chapel exercises on
In ay.
Bliss Braselton also holds mem-
Bhip in the Cushman club of the
Hech department, and Alpha Gam
■ Delta, national social sorority.
Ethers elected were Miss Kather
■ Harrison, West Point, and Miss
Ey Thomas, Suffolk, Va.
Ml three students are members
the senior class and were elected
the basis of scholarship and dra
in: ability.
Hr. Ross Speaks At Cook's School
■ (From Winder News)
■Dr. S. T. Ross was the principal
leaker at the January meeting of
|e P.-T. A. of Cooks school. His
■bject, “Communicable Diseases and
Immunization” was presented in a
Harming and instructive manner to
pupils of this school. Dr. Ross
the necessity of preventing
by the use of vaccines and
TA NARUS.: ■ =chi ol appreciates the cooper-
Hio’: of the medical auxiliary in se-
Hring such a splendid speaker and
|formed man as Dr. Ross.
■ MR. G. B. MATTHEWS
I Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 26. —George
Burke Matthews, 73, prominent
Ickson county farmer, died Friday
Bight at the home of his daughter,
Brs. J. H. Hosch, in Atlanta, follow-
Bg an illness of three days.
I Mr. Matthews went to Atlanta
Sunday to visit his daughter and
ra laken ill Tuesday of pneumonia,
le was born in Jackson county and
fas educated in the common schools
here, later attending the North
ie orgia Agricultural College in Dah
onega. He married Miss Cora
>nii;h, of Pendergrass. He was an
ictive member of the Methodist
hur h and was also a member of
he Masonic order.
Funeral services were held at 2
° clock Sunday afternoon from the
1°- :iton Methodist church and in
nt was in the Hoschton ceme
tery. '
is survived by his wife; five
Mrs. Hosch, of Atlanta;
N Alton Adams, of Hoschton;
■' Meariam Matthews, of Gaines-
Vi “ Mrs. J. W. Wills, of Jefferson,
a ‘ Mrs. H. B. Barber, of Dallas,
! two sons, W. E. Matthews, of
a >neßvill e , and Geo. N. Matthews,
A.lanta; three sisters, Mrs. Geo.
° oa . of Hawkinsville; Mrs. Jennie
°* Cadwell, and Mrs. Barton
• > of Alma, and a brother, Walter
• • atthews, of Cordele.
fl/V" E* Dowdy is visiting at
E \f me . er daughter, Mrs. E.
ceu Ar * in - Mrs. Dowdy recently
dav ninety-fourth birth
and is probably the oldest citi
of the county.
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NORTH GA. METHODIST
W. M. S. RETURNS SPLEN
DID ANNUAL REPORT
The return of prosperity and a
better financial condition is mirror
ed in the annual report of the Meth
odist Woman’s Missionary Society
of the North Georgia conference.
The conference met its pledge of
$52,000, having a total of $52,005.-
89. Local work showed a total of
$15,168.03. City mission yrork, with
Mrs. Rowland Bryce, president, and
Mrs. John Manget, treasurer, report
ed $3,933.54, and supplies with Miss
Lilia Tuck, of Athens, as superinten
dent, reported $7,697.59, making a
grand total for the conference of
$78,805.05 for the year 1934.
The final completion of the pledge
was made possible through the gen
erosity of Glenn Memorial, located
at Emory University, with Mrs. A.
B. Trimble, president, and Mrs. Har
vey Cox, as treasurer. After all re
ports were in and compiled it was
found that there was still a shortage
of S4O, and this society, although it
had already overpaid its pledge, ask
ed for the privilege of paying the
conference out.
The LaGrange district, with Mrs.
C. S. Colley, of Grantville, as dis
trict secretary, lead the conference
financially. This district paid
$258.97 over its pledge. The At
lanta district with Mrs. E. N. Good,
of Atlanta, district secretary, was
second, and the Athens-Elberton dis
trict, with Mrs. Claude Tuck, of
Winterville, and Mrs. W. B. Rich
ardson, of Lavonia, district secre
taries, was third. Other districts
overpaying their pledges were Rome
district, Mrs. W. C. Cantrell, of Car
rollton, secretary; Griffin district,
Mrs. W. Y. Daniel, of Thomaston,
secretary; Marietta district, Mrs. J.
A. Guinn, of Tate, secretary; Gain
esville district, Mrs. G. C. Walters,
of Toccoa, secretary, and Augusta
district, Mrs. M. H. Hendee, of Au
gusta, secretary.
The week of prayer, under the
leadership of Mrs. L. M. Awtrey, of
Acworth, vice president of the con
ference, was more largely observed
than for several years. The collec
tion amounted to nearly $3,000.
West Point, in the LaGrange district,
gave the largest amount with Inman
Park, in the Atlanta district, second.
A large number of life member
certificates were presented, 65 adult,
105 children and six names were
placed on the memorial roll. Har
vest day was observed in a large
number of societies, using the attrac
tive program prepared by the con
ference secretary, Mrs. M. E. Tilly,
of Atlanta. Over SI,OOO .was col
lected at these meetings. The chil
dren’s department, under the leader
ship of Miss Mildred Mealor, of
Gainesville, shows growth and im
provement. Their collection amount
ed to more than $3,000.
The conference supports 15 mis
sionaries in seven foreign countries,
23 Bible women and 30 foreign
scholarships, 20 scholarships in
schools in the homeland and city
mission work at Atlanta and Augus
ta. It also supports five scholarships
at Scarritt College Jor Christian
workers, and four day schools in
foreign countries, and a rural work
er, Miss Bert Winter, who works in
the rural sections of the North Geor
gia conference. Much of the suc
cess of the year’s work is due to
the wise council and loving guidance
of the president of the conference,
Mrs. J. N. McEachern, Sr.
Census Enumerators In
Jackson County
During the month of January an
army of 25,000 census workers have
been enumerating the nation’s farm
population, crop production in 1934
and the number of livestock. Each
enumerator has been allotted a
specific territory to canvass. The
enumerators who have been on the
job in Jackson county are Mrs.
Doss Wilhite, Mrs. Opal Shirley, J.
J. Chapman, Morgan Ray, W. P.
Pettyjohn, Clarence E. Maddox, J.
J. Hutchins and G. M. White. W.
L. Norton, located at Gainesville, is
the supervisor for this distrct.
Miss Sara Frances Yarbrough a
grand-daughter of Mrs. B H Col
lier, has opened a school for illi.er
ates in Commerce. All person over
fourteen years of age are elegible
to become students of the school.
Miss Yarbrough is a gradua e
Commerce High School, afterwards
attending the State University.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
FERA GIFT SAVED
GEORGIA SCHOOLS
DURING PAST YEAR
The Federal Emergency Relief
Administration’s gift of $1,600,000
saved scores of Georgia’s schools
from closing during the past school
year and the same help will be re
quired this year to guarantee full
length terms, State School Superin
tendent M. D. Collins informed the
Georgia legislature in his annual re
port, submitted Tuesday.
In the report Superintendent Col
lins said:
“Very few schools have failed to
operate the full leagth term during
the past year. This fortunate sit
uation is explained largely by the
fact that the teachers of the state
have loyally and unselfishly , borne
the brunt of the burden. Practically
all of Georgia’s 20,000 teachers have
felt the knife of salary reduction,
some as much as 50 per cent. Many
of them have lived for months with
out drawing a single pay check, but
through it all school doors have been
kept open and_ service of the teacher
has been unimpaired. To what other
group of public servants does the
state owe so much consideration?
“Just when the situation was get
ting beyond further endurance and
many schools were about to be clos
ed, we found it possible to enlist
the help of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration and in 1933-
1934 the normal term was maintain
ed through an allotment of more
than $1,600,000 for this purpose.
The situation will be very little bet
ter this year and we have urged the
continuance of this program by the
Federal Government.
“Dufing these years retrench
ments have been made in a program
•which already was scarcely meeting
the needs of the people. The aver
age salary for teachers has never
been sufficient for a living wage;
the Georgia boy and girl have never
had an adequate school term; our
finances have t?een in no condition to
stand the additional stress which the
economic emergency has brought
upon us. Now that measures have
been taken to restore prosperity in
agriculture, in industry and in com
merce, we face the problem of a re
covery program an -education. It
cannot be much longer delayed if
we still value the principles of lib
erty and self-government.”
The State School Department had
planned to ask for annual appropri
ations of $5,500,000 for each of the
years 1936 and 1937, but finally
agreed to a figure of $4,000,000 for
each year when informed that this
would be all the money available,
and this amount was recommended
in the governor’s budget message
Monday. The schools receved ap
proximately $3,300,000 last year as
the result of a 21 per cent cut in
their appropriation.
BASKET BALL
CANTON HIGH SCHOOL
VS.
JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL
This should be the best game of the entire season.
Both teams have made enviable records. Canton de
feated Jefferson in Canton by three points early in the
season, but both teams have improved considerably since
then.
Canton lost to Tech High by one point, and Jeffer
son lost to Tech High by two points. Jefferson holds a
two point victory over the Georgia Freshmen.
Asa preliminary game, the Jefferson girls will play
the Flowery Branch girls.
FRIDAY, FEB. 1, 1935. 7:00 and 8:00 O’CLOCK.
AT MARTIN INSTITUTE' GYMNASIUM
CERTIFICATE POOL
CLOSES FEBRUARY 9,
COUNTY AGENT SAYS
Sale of surplus certificates by the
National Surplus Cotton Tax Ex
emption Certificate Pool will end at
midnight, February 9, 1935, accord
ing to information received by
County Agent W. Hill Hosch. The
pool was formed to facilitate the
transfer of surplus tax-exemption
certificates under the Bankhead Cot
ton Act.
“It is considered that by Febru
ary 9 all. producers should have a
definite idea as to their nbed for ad
dStional certificates with which to
secure bale tags for their 1934 cot
ton crops,” E. L. Deal, manager of
the pool, said. “In order that work
toward a final settlement of the
Pool may be expedited, it is neces
sary that producers needing certi
ficates purchase them not later than
February 9.”
November 24, 1934, was the final
date on which producers with excess
certificates could surrender them to
the Pool for sale. Surplus certifi
cates are sold by the Pool at the
standard rate of four cents a pound,
whereas the tax on the ginning of
cotton in excess of Bankhead Act
allotments is 5.67 cents a pound.
Following closing of the Pool, any
local sales of certificates at a price
other than the fixed price of 4 cents
a pound will be illegal and will sub
ject the certificates to cancellation.
Local sales are legal only when
made between producers within a
county and the transfer recorded in
the office of the County Assistant in
Cotton Adjustment.
It is anticipated that all non-pool
ed and unused certificates will be
called in at an early date for re
issuance in anew form for 1935 use.
FUND PROMISED
BY TALMADGE
Reaching a “complete accord”
with Governor Talmadge, who agreed
to a one-million-dollar state appro
priation for the University System
of Georgia, the University Board of
Regents abandoned all plans Monday
for a $2,691,000 PWA construction
loan to the university.
Simultaneously, the board pledged
support to the regents’ bill sponsor
ed by the Governor, making them
state officers and bringing all uni
versity property with the exception
of private grants under the owner
ship of the state.
Most of the construction involved
will take place on the campuses of
the University of Georgia at Athens
and at Georgia Tech. The work
would largely involve dormitory con
struction.
The Governor agreed to appro
priate one million dollars, with one
third of the amount payable in each
of the years 1935, 1936 and 1937.
Thursday, January 31, 1935.
$3 CAR TAG VOTED
BY SENATE, HOUSE
Approval in both houses of the
straight $3 tag bill was followed in
the House Monday afternoon by
rapid-fire passage of other outstand
ing administration measures. These
were:
1. Bill diverting two millions dol
lars of highway funds.
2. The regents bill, approved by
a vote of 171 to 2 after a compro
mise between the Governor and the
university body had been reached
earlier in the day.
The vote on the diversion bill was
164 to 0.
A highlight of the afternoon ses
sion in the House was a second vote
on the proposal to invite Huey Long
to address the Georgia Legislature.
The matter had been tabled previous
ly, but was brought from the table
by Representative Wiliams, of Cof
fee. The proposal this time was kill
ed by a vote of 58 to 52.
Both houses adopted the $3 tag
bill without amendment, but a fight
to force higher prices for trucks
lost in the House only after a fiery
debate that brought charges of in
timidation, coercion and padded vot
ing.
The Senate passed the bill, 44 to
1.
Rucker, of Athens, cast the sin
gle dissenting vote in the Senate.
Administration Bills Up To
Senate
Washington, January 24.—The ad
ministration’s $4,880,000,000 jobs
for-all bill was passed by the house
rate today after powerful majority
had defeated every attempt to re
strict President Roosevelt’s authori
ty under the measure.
The bill carries the largest lump
sum appropriation in the world’s
history.
The vote was 328 to 78, an earlier
republican motion to recommit the
bill was defeated, 303 to 100.
As finally approved the measure
authorizes:
1. President Roosevelt to spend
$4,000,000,000 as he sees fit to pro
vide jobs for 3,500,000 employables
now on relief rolls.
2. Expenditure of $880,000,000 of
unexpended funds for direct relief
until the new works program is in
full swing.
3. Consolidation, abolishment or
transfer of functions and duties of
any emergency agency.
Industry Not Protected
4. Acquisition by purchase or by
power of eminent domain any real
property to effectuate the new pro
ject.
5 Mr. Roosevelt to prescribe rules
and regulations necessary to cariy
out the new act.
6. Fines for willful violations not
to exceed $5,000.
The bill does not:
1. Prevent the government from
competing with private industry un
der the new program.
2. Specify the wage scale to be
paid under construction contracts let
by the government.
3. Earmark any of the $4,000,-
000,000 for specific projects in any
locality.
4. Provide additional taxation.
5. Give Mr. Roosevelt power to
extend the life of emergency agen
cies such as the PWA and NKA as
was sought by the administration.
6. Designate the individual or
agency which shall administer the
huge fund.
The measure now goes to the sen
ate, where individual members al
ready have expressed dissatisfaction
with it and where every effort will
be made to restrict its scope.
James Andrew Sorrow
James Andrew Sorrow, aged 90,
one of the oldest citizens of the
Black’s Creek community, passed a
way January 22, after an illness of
only a week. Hi3 body wa interred
in the cemetery at Black’s Creek
Baptist church on January 23.
Mr. Sorrow is survived by the
following children: J. W. Sorrow,
Danielsville; Mrs. E. A. Shaw, Mrs.
Mack Lord, Commerce; Mrs. Mollie
Lord, Danielsville; Mrs. Luther Lord,
Danielsville; J. E. Sorrow, Mrs.
Myrtie Campbell, and Mrs. Callie
Ingram, Commerce; two brothers al
so survive, Ben Sorrow and Tommie
Sorrow of Commerce.
Vol. 60. No. 21.
DOROTHY DIX TO
OPEN PROGRAM OF
PRESS INSTITUTE
Dorothy Dix, nationally famous
newspaper woman whose column of
advice appears throughout the coun
try, has accepted an invitation to
attend Georgia Press Institute and
deliver the opening address on the
night of Wednesday, February 20,
according to announcement by the
Atlanta Journal, which publishes
Dorothy Dix’s column.
In real life Dorothy Dix is Mrs.
Elizabeth Gilmer and in accepting
the Journal’s invitation, Mrs. Gilmer
expressed the hope that her appear
ance in Georgia will help convince
skeptics that Dorothy Dix really ex
ists.
“Many people believe there is no
such person,” the famous writer de
clared on her last visit to Georgia.
“Some believe that the daily Doro
thy Dix column is the wofk of six
college professors who take turns
writing the thing. I am continual
ly receiving letters which begin with
Dear Sir or Madam.”
The program of Press Institute,
which will last through February 23,
will bring to the state a number of
other well known figures in journal
ism.
Georgia Federation
of Women’s Contest
Prize Essay Contest
The Georgia Federation of Wo
men’s Clubs announce the essay con
test which is sponsored by the In
surance Division with the approval
of the Executive Board. This is an
activity of the American Home De
partment.
Subject, “Family Security Through
Life Insurance.”
Prizes, 1, For the Best Essay, To
the Individual, S3O; To her Club,
$10; To her District, $lO.
2, For Second Best Eassay, To
the Individual, S2O; To her Club,
$lO.
3, For Third Best Essay, To the
Individual, $10; To her Club, $5.
High School Essays:
Subject, “Life Insurance, What
It Is and What It Does.”
Prizes: 4, For Best High School
Essay, sls; 5, For Second Best Es
say, $10; 6, For Third Best Essay,
$5.
Prizes; 7, For the District having
the greatest percentage of Clubs
participating, $lO.
8, To District Insurance Chairman
having greatest percentage of Clubs
and High Schools participating, $lO.
9, To Club Insurance Chairman
having greatest percentage of mem
bers and High School students parti
cipating, $5.
Rule* Governing Contest
Essay will be limited to 500 words,
must be type-written, and on one
side of the paper only. Three copies
of each essay must be sent. The
heading at the top of the first page
must include the name of the Club
or High School. Sealed envelope
containing name of contestant must
be attached.
The contest is open to Georgia
club women and to all students in
the eighth to twelfth grades, inclu
sive. This includes students in pri
vate, church and parochial, as well as
public schools.
Contest started November 15,
1934, and all papers must be sub
mitted by February 15, 1935.
No person engaged in the insur
ance business, or where immediate
family is in insurance business, may
compete in contest.
FEWER WOMEN
i
State legislatures this year num
ber fewer women in their ranks than
in 1934.
According to recent government
figures, female legislators total 130
in 34 states. This is five less than
1929, the peak year for women in
the legislative halls.
A significant fact about their re
presentation is that it has been
steadily declining in number during
the past five years.
Of this year’s number, 67 are
Democrats, 52 Republicans, 2 non
partisans, 1 Socialist, and 8 were
elected on both the Republican-
Democratic tickets.
Connecticut, with 17, leads the
state this year in women legislators.